The Best and Easiest Type of Meditation

The Best and Easiest Type of Meditation

Devotee: What should you be thinking about when you’re chanting? What do you think about when you’re chanting?
Prabhupada: Chanting? You simply hear. When you say “Hare Krsna,” you try to hear the very sound, “Hare Krsna.” That’s all.

Nothing more. This is meditation. Your tongue and your ear should be engaged in sounding this transcendental vibration, “Hare Krsna.” Best meditation. This is also accepted in Bhagavadgîta: the best meditation. You don’t keep your mind elsewhere. You keep your mind on the chanting, “Hare Krsna,” and hear.

So this is responsive. When I was chanting, you were hearing; when you were chanting, I was hearing. So it is exchange. I hear your chanting, you hear my chanting. This is the process. So there is no possibility of thinking anything else. Best and the easiest type of meditation.

Fully. Factual. You at once become on the transcendental plane. You see? So practice it and you’ll see how spiritually you are making advancement. And it is very simple. When you are walking on the street, you can chant Hare Krsna. There is not tax.

There is no expenditure. There is no loss. But the gain is very great. Why don’t you try it? If without any loss, without any expenditure, you gain something, the supermost sublime thing, spiritual realization, why don’t you try for it? We are not asking any money.

We are not asking $250 for paying for hearing. No. It is freely distributed. Please take it and try it. Make an experiment. There is no business here. You simply chant Hare Krsna and try to hear the sound, that’s all. Nothing more. 

You Will Be Happy, You Will Be Prosperous

So if you take advantage of this Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, in whatever position you may be, you will never be unhappy. 
You will always be prosperous. So why don’t you take advantage of this? 
Be situated. Oh, you are medical practitioner?
That’s all right. You are engineer? That’s all right. You are a clerk?
That’s all right. You are a real estate man? 
That’s all right. Never mind whatever you are doing. veryone has to do something to keep his body and soul together. That is the law of nature. So we may do whatever by God’s grace or by Nature we are situated.

That doesn’t matter. But if you take this formula, always think of Krsna, then the result will be that you will never be unhappy. Just try. Make an experiment. Why don’t you try it? This is our mission. We don’t say that you change your life. We simply say that in whatever position you are, you please chant. That’s all. 

You please chant. You will be happy. You will be prosperous. Krsna will be pleased upon you, and you will never be in scarcity. Is it not a very nice thing? You will never be unhappy. You will never be in scarcity. 

It is guaranteed here. Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. You will not be deviated from what you are doing, but at the same time, you will be able to hear this sound, transcendental sound vibration. So this is the formula given by the Lord Himself. 

Please try to follow it always. Always chant Hare Krsna. There is no rule, no regulation. Never mind what you are doing. Simply chant and hear. We are anxious that everyone may take up this simple thing.